Woman who fleeced 94-year-old sentenced

By Jessica Kwong

Updated 12:35 am, Thursday, January 26, 2012

A business owner hired to clean the house of a 94-year-old widower was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for theft from the elderly for pilfering his bank account of $11,000 in forged checks.

Absolute Cleaning owner Enedrina Gomez was hired by the 94-year-old man's son, who came to San Antonio to take him to live with him in Houston after his wife died.

Her defense attorney, Jocelyn Andrews, added that others were involved in the August and September 2011 thefts and asked that Gomez be given a chance at probation.

But State District Judge Sid Harle approved the four-year sentence prosecutors asked for, as well as a $1,500 fine, saying it was “pretty light” given the “feeding frenzy” at the house and Gomez's history, which includes several bounced check cases in Bexar County and California and a pending case in Kerr County.

In a written statement, the victim's son said he trusted Gomez and her relatives to be honest with him but received a call from the owner of a store in San Antonio informing him that one of her employees had accepted a check made out on his parents' bank account. He discovered more fraudulent checks to Walmart and one written for $500 in tuition.

Gomez, 63, who has been in jail since November, told the judge: “I've been incarcerated several times and I've never been given any kind of help.”

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Harle responded, “I'm not sure what kind of therapy or counseling you need for that.”